Topic: higher education

The University of Washington chapter of the fraternity Beta Theta Pi has been disbanded after reports of hazing this fall, a spokesman for the university said. The decision was made by the international headquarters of the office, following an investigation, said James Ehrmann, UW assistant director of fraternity and sorority life. The fraternity can apply for…

Western Washington University has named Brent Carbajal, who was about halfway through a two-year term as provost, as the Bellingham school’s permanent provost. He will also become vice president for academic affairs. Before he started the job as provost, Carbajal was dean of WWU’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences. As provost and vice-president, he will…

A well-respected national newspaper that covers higher education published a package of stories Monday that was critical of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s influence on higher education. The Chronicle of Higher Education report calculated that the Seattle foundation has spent $472 million to remake U.S. higher education since 2006. The amount makes the foundation the…

Well, here’s one way to get out of your student loans. A San Francisco-based federal appeals court has ruled that an Oregon law-school graduate who failed the bar exam twice, and missed his third try after locking his keys in his car, does not have to pay all of his student debt. The case represents a…

During the State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama promoted a new federal online tool, the College Scorecard, to help students compare colleges and find the ones that give “the most bang for your educational buck,” as the president put it. That tool went live Wednesday, and Washington users might find some of…

A Boston-area private research university will open a satellite campus in South Lake Union in January, school officials announced Tuesday. Northeastern University-Seattle will offer graduate programs in 15 areas, all related to science, technology, health care, business, education, policy and administration, according to a news release. It will be share a space at 401 Terry…

More Americans have college degrees than ever, but the pace of increase is far too slow to meet future labor needs, a new report by a national education foundation says. The report, by the nonprofit Lumina Foundation, ranks the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue area fifth in the nation in terms of the number of its adults who have…

Demand for workers in certain high-tech, high-demand fields is continuing to outstrip the state university and college system’s ability to educate people to do those jobs, and the gap will persist for at least the next seven years, a new state report says. The problem: Washington’s higher-education institutions aren’t producing enough bachelor degrees in computer science,…

CityU of Seattle has always identified itself with the state’s largest city, even though its campus is in Bellevue. But in December, the non-profit university is moving across the lake, to the Sixth and Wall building on the edge of Belltown. CityU will take up about 88,000 square feet of the building at 6th Avenue and…

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